October 21 brings a new Bing release, "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Obviously Bing's not recording any new music these days, but there's still some gold in those vaults that hasn't been re-issued to death.
This new release comes from the Sounds of Yesteryear label. I'm not really all that familiar with them, but their specialty seems to be releasing music that was performed on the radio. In this case, Bing performed some Christmas music for "Philco Radio Time" on December 7th and 9th 1946. He was joined by the Andrews Sisters on several of the songs. The program was so successful that it was rebroadcast for the next few years. I've looked through a couple of discographies, fwiw, and haven't seen more than a track or two of this elsewhere. That said, this is listed among the reissues, so I'm guessing most of this, if not all, has been out there in some form or another. But, as NBC used to say about their reruns when their ratings were lousy, "if you haven't seen it before, then its new to you."
Pre-order available from Amazon or wherever you get your music on.
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - with The Andrews Sisters
3. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
4. I'll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams)
5. The Twelve Days Of Christmas - with The Andrews Sisters
6. Here Comes Santa Claus - with The Andrews Sisters
7. Medley: Deck The Halls with Boughs Of Holly/Away In A Manger/I Saw Three Ships
8. Medley: Good King Wenceslas/We Three Kings Of Orient Are/Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
9. Mele Kalikimaka - with The Andrews Sisters
10. Silver Bells - with Carole Richards
11. Christmas In Kilarney
12. "Philco Radio Time 11": Where The Blue Of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day Adeste Fideles (Oh! Come All Ye Faithful)
13. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - with Skitch Henderson
14. Jingle Bells - with Skitch Henderson, piano
15. White Christmas
16. The Small One (A Christmas Play) - featuring the cast
17. Silent Night, Holy Night